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ICFP
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Types, potency, and idempotency: why nonlinearity and amnesia make a type system work
Useful type inference must be faster than normalization. Otherwise, you could check safety conditions by running the program. We analyze the relationship between bounds on normali...
Harry G. Mairson, Peter Møller Neergaard
CORR
2008
Springer
91views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Exchange of Limits: Why Iterative Decoding Works
We consider communication over a family of binary-input memoryless output-symmetric channels using lowdensity parity-check codes under message passing decoding. The asymptotic (in ...
Satish Babu Korada, Rüdiger L. Urbanke
CEEMAS
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
The "Dance or Work" Problem: Why Do not all Honeybees Dance with Maximum Intensity
A honeybee colony has to choose among several nectar sources in the environment, each fluctuating in quality over time. Successful forager bees return to the hive and perform dance...
Ronald Thenius, Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim
ICML
2005
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Why skewing works: learning difficult Boolean functions with greedy tree learners
We analyze skewing, an approach that has been empirically observed to enable greedy decision tree learners to learn "difficult" Boolean functions, such as parity, in the...
Bernard Rosell, Lisa Hellerstein, Soumya Ray, Davi...
EUROGP
2009
Springer
108views Optimization» more  EUROGP 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Why Coevolution Doesn't "Work": Superiority and Progress in Coevolution
Coevolution often gives rise to counter-intuitive dynamics that defy our expectations. Here we suggest that much of the confusion surrounding coevolution results from imprecise not...
Thomas Miconi